The EU regulators who combat monopolistic practices have never been kind to Microsoft (MSFT). They have hounded the world’s largest software company for years, accusing it of bundling its browser into its operating system…
Oracle Corp. (NASDAQ: ORCL) was having a rough day ahead of its earnings and things don’t look much better after the report. The CRM leader posted a 5% rise in income of $1.1 billion,…
Oracle Corp. (NASDAQ: ORCL) is on deck for earnings after the close of trading today. The consensus estimates from Thomson Reuters are $0.30 EPS and $5.25 billion in revenues. The $0.30 EPS figure is…
Morgan Stanley has made several key downgrades in technology, as well as a few lesser upgrades. Both IBM (NYSE: IBM) and Dell Inc. (NASDAQ: DELL) were downgraded to Equal-Weight from Overweight. Also cut to…
Oracle (ORCL) probably thought its deal to buy Sun Microsystems (JAVA) was a sure thing once US regulators had approved the deal. Now, the transaction is in real trouble and some experts believe it…
There are a number of estimates of what piracy in China costs American software companies. Most are in the $2 billion to $4 billion range. It could be much more than that. China is…
The Apple (AAPL) App Store, with over 1.5 billion application downloads, has become a tremendous market where software developers can sell their products. Individuals or corporations must register with Apple and pay a small…
LogMeIn, Inc. (NASDAQ: LOGM) has only been public since July 1. While the market has done well, this stock has actually come off by about 10% from its IPO post-closing levels. It is still…
Google (GOOG) CEO Eric Schmidt has left the Apple (AAPL) board. Apple says it was because of increasing conflicts between the two companies, a sign that the war among large tech companies is growing…
Microsoft Corp’s (Nasdaq: MSFT) Steve Ballmer inks a deal with Yahoo, the software giant’s biggest in years, and all of a sudden he’s invincible. He sure made it sound that way at the company’s…
Wall St. found a lot of things wrong with the joint venture in the search engine industry between Microsoft (MSFT) and Yahoo! (YHOO) The smaller company’s stock dropped 12% and analysts felt that it…
Microsoft’s (MSFT) revenue dropped 17% in the second quarter, and worse, sales dropped in all five of the firm’s operating units. The recession and the decline in PC sales are to blame for the…
Microsoft did not do as well as Wall St. had hoped. The company posted revenue of $13.1 billion and EPS of $.34 . Analysts were looking for $.36 on $14.38 billion in revenue, A year ago, the world’s largest…
Microsoft (MSFT) said yesterday that the code for the next version of its immensely successful operating system is done. Windows 7 will replace Vista as the company’s flagship operating system when it goes on…
VMware Inc. (NYSE: VMW) is showing that the limitless growth of virtualization either does have some limits or that the recession put a real cap on its growth. The virtualization leader posted $0.20 in…